TY - GEN
T1 - Data gathering in wireless sensor networks with ferry nodes
AU - Alnuaimi, Mariam
AU - Shuaib, Khaled
AU - Alnuaimi, Klaithem
AU - Abed-Hafez, Mohammed
N1 - Funding Information:
Activities to overcome this situation are still limited. They include the implementation by the Electrical Research Institute (IIE) of Mexico of a reference anemometric network with stations at several sites around the country, as part of a project financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Data from these stations are publicly available on the Web and are meant to help removing the important barrier represented by the lack of reliable information for project development (IIE 2007). A number of private companies interested in the development of commercial wind projects have also implemented anemometric stations of their own at several sites around the country.
Funding Information:
Biomass. Electricity generation with biogas from sanitary landfills was first demonstrated in Mexico with a pilot installation of 20 kW, built in 1991 by IIE in cooperation with the national electric utilities CFE and LFC, at the Santa Cruz site in eastern Mexico City (IIE 1991). The first commercial plant in Mexico to generate electricity with biogas from a sanitary landfill was built in northern Mexico in 2003. This is a 7.4 MW facility erected in the municipality of Salinas Victoria as a public-private partnership to supply a fraction of the electricity needed for street lighting, water pumping and electric transport for the metropolitan Monterrey area in the state of Nuevo León. The project was supported by a grant from the GEF-World Bank which helped to remove some of the financial constraints that in the past had prevented construction of this type of plants (WB 2003).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Mobile ferries are an alternative way for collecting data from dispersed sensor nodes especially in large-scale networks. Unlike data collection via multi-hop forwarding among the nodes, ferries travel across the sensing field and collect data from the sensing nodes. The advantage of using a ferry based approach is that, it eliminates the need for multi-hop forwarding of data, and as a result energy consumption at the nodes is significantly reduced. However, this increases data delivery latency and as such might not be suitable for all applications. In this paper we survey the recent progress of using mobile ferry nodes for data gathering in WSNs addressing two main areas, determining the path of the ferry and the scheduling when to dispatch the ferry to collect data from sensors. We also highlight challenges facing the deployment of mobile ferries in wireless sensor networks.
AB - Mobile ferries are an alternative way for collecting data from dispersed sensor nodes especially in large-scale networks. Unlike data collection via multi-hop forwarding among the nodes, ferries travel across the sensing field and collect data from the sensing nodes. The advantage of using a ferry based approach is that, it eliminates the need for multi-hop forwarding of data, and as a result energy consumption at the nodes is significantly reduced. However, this increases data delivery latency and as such might not be suitable for all applications. In this paper we survey the recent progress of using mobile ferry nodes for data gathering in WSNs addressing two main areas, determining the path of the ferry and the scheduling when to dispatch the ferry to collect data from sensors. We also highlight challenges facing the deployment of mobile ferries in wireless sensor networks.
KW - energy efficiency protocols
KW - ferry protocol
KW - load balancing
KW - routing protocols
KW - wireless sensor networks
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U2 - 10.1109/ICNSC.2015.7116038
DO - 10.1109/ICNSC.2015.7116038
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84941243403
T3 - ICNSC 2015 - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control
SP - 221
EP - 225
BT - ICNSC 2015 - 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2015 12th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2015
Y2 - 9 April 2015 through 11 April 2015
ER -